“Big Beat Disaster” is a misquotation from Britney Spears’ 2013 vintage “Work Bitch,” which Leilah Weinraub references though singing, speaking and ranting in the 2021 DIS film, Everything But The Entire world.
The initial track is a delusional meritocratic anthem for Soulcycle mothers, younger gays, sigma male grindset hustlers and twitch streaming egirls who consider anybody can just operate their way to a Bugatti, a sizzling entire body and a mansion in France. But specified her conservatorship, “Work Bitch” turns into less a information of self-emancipation and additional an echo of the jeering words and phrases of Britney’s masters, terms repeated until they turned a refrain of her have unconscious. In the movie the tune is reimagined by the narrator, as an early human 1 enacts repetitive movements of labor through time.
“Big Defeat Disaster” provides a group of photographs taken all through the filming of All the things But the Planet: a pilot for a docu-sci-fi collection about humanity’s obsession with our place in a globe which “doesn’t even know we exist.” Get ready for scenes of neolithic abandon, White Castle workers turned aggressive rogue activists, and BDSM witchcraft guided excursions of Medieval Italian castles, all of it edited into a surreal narrative filtered by way of the prism of the world wide web, an infinite reservoir for apocalyptic thought––just like the Bible.
The derangement of scale1 brought on by the huge hole in between the immensity of humanity’s global existence and the smallness of your individual non-public every day lifestyle2 are like the put up-its3 strewn across the photos. Thoughts so crucial we simply cannot forget about, but not so crucial that we will not toss them in the trash. Like a remnant of our egoistic apocalypse fantasies, the hurricane shutters that encase the images may have resisted the 2500°C flames they have been subjected to, but not without having burnt.
Below will come the big conquer.
Fields of strawberry.
Significant defeat catastrophe.
Or the repeat actions of the assembly line.
Folding bins in the success facilities, reaching for a product,
cutting poultry.
You wanna stay fancy?
Swiping, typing, buying, packing.
Stay in a huge mansion?
Bash in France?
For what?
Choose up what I put down.
The ‘oin.
Decide up what I set down.
Lady, it was the dollar.
—Ada O’Higgins
at Undertaking Native Informant, London
till April 1, 2023
